The Kyle Report

The Kyle Report

Saturday, December 12, 2020

City to auction street signs, police cars, other vehicles

 Want a 1998 Chevy 3500 diesel that was once a Kyle Police vehicle? How about 2010 Crown Vic or a “retired” Burleson Road street sign? The city is going to be making all these and more available soon to the highest bidders.

The street signs will be available via an online auction that begins Wednesday and ends 6 p.m. Friday. You can click here to see the 23 street signs available and later to bid on one or more of them just in time to give to someone on your holiday gift list. Potential bidders must submit credit card information to create an account and each bid has to be in $30 increments.

“These signs come from all over the city back into the hands of the Public Works Department from being retired, from streets being renamed or redone, and rather than sit and gather dust in our warehouse, we’d rather them be offered to the public to own a small piece of Kyle,” Public Works Director Harper Wilder said in a prepared statement released by the city last night.

Winning bidders will be able to retrieve their signs at City Hall between 4 and 6:30 p.m. Dec. 21 and 22, or at other times and dates by appointment. Winners can also pay extra for shipping, according to the city.

I have no idea when or where the various vehicles will be available at auction. All I know is that the city council’s Consent Agenda for Tuesday contains two items authorizing that the city dispose of the following vehicles through an auction.

  • 2010 Ford F350 
  • 2010 Ford Crown Victoria
  • A pair of 2009 Ford F350s
  • 2009 Ford Crown Victoria
  • 2008 Ford Crown Victoria
  • 2005 Ford Crown Victoria
  • 2004 Ford Crown Victoria
  • 2002 Ford F350
  • 2001 Dodge Ram 1500
  • 2001 Ford Ranger
  • 2000 Ford F150 XL
  • 1999 Ford F150
  • 1999 Ford Ranger
  • 1998 Chevrolet 3500 Diesel

In addition to the 1998 Chevy, the 2005 Crown Vic, the 2001 Dodge Ram and the 2000 Ford F150 XL are all police vehicles. The others are no-longer-desired Public Works vehicles. I would recommend anyone interested in the auto auction(s) contact the city’s Communications, Public Works and/or Police departments to get more information.

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